1. Quickly answer a text when your client’s eye mask is on
2. Secretly check out a hot client
3. Sneak a quick fart when you’re alone in the treatment room
4. Ever so subtly pull up the blanket when the client’s showing a little too much
5. Mentally plucking your client’s eyebrows into shape during a facial
6. Smile in delight when you squeeze a giant blackhead out of your client’s face and then pray to God to find more
7. Repeat the same sequence of movements in the last ten minutes of a back massage and hope the client doesn’t notice
8. Lie down on your treatment bed in between appointments to ease the agony of your feet and back
9. Secretly compare your clients bodies to your own, realising your oddly shaped belly button isn’t actually abnormal
10. Gagging when filing toenails that look like they’ve never seen the light of day
11. Drift off into thinking about what to get for dinner when your client is talking, then catch yourself and try extra hard to look attentive
12. Dancing around the salon pretending you’re Katy Perry when it’s empty
13. Picking your wedgie out while standing behind the protective guise of the reception desk
14. Smirking at your co-worker when a client is flirting with them
15. Fake laughing at most of your manager’s jokes
16. And sometimes briefly imagining what life would have been like if you’d never gone into beauty therapy and met all your colourful clients
Spill: Do you have any secret beauty therapist habits?